Erik and Lyle Menendez are scheduled for parole hearings this week, representing their first opportunity for potential release since their 1996 convictions for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.

The brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of fatally shooting their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion.

Driving the news: Defense attorneys have maintained the brothers acted in self-defense, citing years of alleged sexual abuse by their father, while prosecutors have argued the murders were motivated by a multimillion-dollar inheritance. • In May 2025, a Los Angeles judge resentenced the Menendez brothers from life without parole to 50 years to life, making them immediately eligible for parole under Cal

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